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Conference on the Legacy of Stanley Milgram

Yale Law School is hosting a conference on the Legacy of Stanley Milgram this Saturday. Unsurprisingly, many Situationist Contributors (Thomas Blass, Jon Hanson, Dan Kahan, and Tom Tyler) and Situationist friends (Phoebe Ellsworth, Doug Kysar, and Jaime Napier) will be participating. The conference agenda is below.

Saturday, October 26, 2013Yale Law SchoolSponsored by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund

11:00-12:00Situationism in lawJon D. Hanson, Alfred Smart Professor and Director, Project on Law and Mind Sciences, Harvard Law SchoolModerator: Douglas Kysar, Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School

12:00-12:15 Pick up box lunch12:15-1:00Reflections on the life and work of Stanley MilgramThomas Blass, Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and author of The Man Who Shocked the WorldModerator: Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School and Department of Psychology, Yale University

1:00-2:00Obedience to authority, Thoughts on Milgram as a filmmakerKathryn Millard, Professor of Film and Creative Arts, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, AUModerator: Sarah Ryan, Empirical Research Librarian & Lecturer in Legal Research, Yale Law School

2:00-3:00Inattentive bureaucrats or engaged followers? Understanding Milgram’s subjectsS. Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology and ARC Laureate Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUModerator: Jaime Napier, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Yale University

3:00-4:00Milgram’s legacy in social psychologyPhoebe Ellsworth, Frank Murphy Distinguished University Professor of Law and Psychology, University of MichiganModerator: Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School